"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think this [mining] company is supplying the U.S. value chain, [and] is supplying the military. It is in-fact, the opposite. They are part of the Chinese monopoly. They're taking powder and shipping it to China, and it comes back as a magnet, or an alloy, or a bolt-on component." - Jim Kennedy
To address this issue, contact your legislators to support H.R.4883 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
Why can't Molycorp, Lynas or any other 'western' rare earth company succeed?
China's production and market advantage in Rare Earth Elements (REE) is largely the result of NRC and IAEA "SourceMaterial" regulations with unintended consequences.
Source Material: Materials containing any ratio or combination of Thorium and Uranium above .05%. Producing or holding these materials within the regulatory threshold (.05%) requires extensive and wide-ranging licensing, storage, transportation, remediation disposal and compliance costs, including prohibitive liability and bonding issues. Consequently any potential supplier of byproduct / co-product rare earth resources that would be designated as "source material' disposes of these valuable resources to avoid liability and compliance issues.
NRC / IAEA regulations regarding "Source Material" played a key roll in undermining the economic viability of all 'western' rare earth producers and are a critical factor in China's current 'market advantage'. Producers like Molycorp and Lynas, with low Thorium deposits, can never compete with China.
Resources are abundant and available: U.S mining companies currently mine as much as 50% of global Rare Earth Elements demand every year. But these resources are diverted in tailings lakes or are redistributed back into the host ore body, due to NRC and IAEA regulations defining Monazite and other Thorium bearing rare earth resources as "Source Material".
H.R. 4883 would solve the "Thorium Problem" by creating a federally chartered multinational Thorium Energy and Industrial Products Corporation ("Thorium Bank"). Privately funded and operated, this would decouple thorium from rare earth production. The Thorium Corporation would also have Congressional Authority to develop Thorium energy systems and industrial products. Environmental regulations are not scaled back... rather this enables thorium to be stored safely & securely, rather then being treated as "waste".
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
H.R. 4883 thus also addresses the U.S. Weapons Systems current 100% Dependency on China for Rare Earths.
http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/downloads/TEAC6/USWeaponsChinese.pdfFederal Legislation governing Strategic Materials, 10 USC 2533b, does not specify rare earths, but includes metal alloys containing limited amounts of manganese, silicon, copper, or aluminum, chromium, cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, nickel and iron-nickel, cobalt, Titanium and Zirconium alloys. Federal Regulations require that these materials be melted in the U.S. Most of these materials are utilized in rare earth alloys, magnets and components in the defense industry.
The bill does NOT reclassify thorium. It does NOT alter current environmental protection. It simply resolves "The Thorium Problem" which cripples United States domestic rare earth mining, processing and value-adding processes.
Source Footage:
Jim Kennedy @ IAEA: http://youtu.be/fLR39sT_bTs
Jim Kennedy interview @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/Dih30mUexrA
Jim Kennedy Talk @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/CARlEac1iuA
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/z7qfOnMzP9Y
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC4: http://youtu.be/J16IpITWBQ8
John Kutsch @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/MgRn4g7a068

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So, today I will tell you about the top refractory metal on Earth – tungsten. Tungsten is one of the transition metals, and is located in group 6 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
It got it’s name from the mineral wolframite, from which this mineral is obtained. Also, a tiny fun fact, wolfram is a Swedish word.
Now if we look at the appearance, tungsten looks like a shiny metal with gray tint, though if you hold a rod of tungsten in the hand you may experience one special characteristic. The density of tungsten is almost 20 grams per cubic centimeter, which is very close to the density of gold.
That is the reason why tungsten was used for faking gold bars. A couple of years ago there was news that some gold bars had a filling of tungsten inside, which of course is significantly cheaper than gold.
Though the forgery causes skepticism among some scientists.
To clearly demonstrate to you how much is 20 gram per cubic centimeter, I will compare the mass of a rod of tungsten and a rod of magnesium.
As you can see, the tungsten rod is not only several times smaller than the magnesium one, but is also even heavier than the latter.
Also, tungsten is a fairly brittle metal, it is plastic only when it has a very high purity. In addition, tungsten has the highest tensile strength.
However, this is not the main feature of this metal. To melt a piece of tungsten, you need to reach an extremely high temperature of 3422 degrees Celsius.
That is why this metal was at first used as the filament in incandescent bulbs.
However, if you pass a current through the thin tungsten filament, it can overheat and then break, thereby ceasing any production of light .
All is due to the fact that in air tungsten oxidizes at a high temperature, forming on its surface oxides of tungsten.
Also, the tungsten rod after calcination with a gas burner obtains beautiful colored stains, caused by the different thickness of the oxide film on the metal surface.
However, in light bulbs it’s not really about the beauty, more about the ability to actually produce light, hence all the oxygen from the bulb is pumped out and is replaced with a mixture of nitrogen and argon under reduced pressure.
In these circumstances, the filament can shine for quite a long time. Also another fun fact, when taking pictures of the the filament in macro I’ve noticed the difference of the more powerful old light bulbs and the less powerful modern ones.
In the old light bulbs the filament is made simply in the form of a spiral, but it turns out the modern ones have a double helix, making the filament thinner, which creates more sections of uneven thickness in the yarn, which then leads to the more rapid failure of the bulb. From a chemical point of view, tungsten is fairly stable, it is not soluble in hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. And the most stable compounds of hexavalent tungsten, such as, for example, the sodium tungstate are used as a catalyst of epoxidation in the organic synthesis, andin manufacturing of pigments. Sodium tungstate is soluble in water, but instead of water I will use the 30% acetic acid to obtain the so-called tungsten blue pigment that has a very intense color.
To do this, we’ll add a piece of magnesium to the test-tube. Magnesium reacts with acetic acid, releasing hydrogen, which in turn recovers tungsten from the hexavalent state to tungsten oxide 3 with an admixture of other oxides.
The formed particles of oxides are of a small size, allowing them to form colloidal solution of a bright blue or blue-green color.
The shade depends mainly on the acidity of the environment.
The obtained tungsten blue can be used as a good dye for fabric, paper or other items that have the ability to adsorb particles of tungsten blue.
The metal tungsten has a very high hardness and is hardly turned on the grinding wheel. Today tungsten finds many applications.
First and foremost, this metal is used in filaments for the halogen lamps, refractory electrodes for argon-arc welding, as well as in hard projectile cores in some military shells. The most common substance of the tungsten compounds is tungsten carbide, which also goes by the name Pobedit but mainly in Russia (which if you translate that to English means “will win”). It is mostly used as a cutter when machining metals or stones because of its high hardness. Quality high hardness steel would almost always be composed of tungsten. So that’s what this metal tungsten is like, which is found in practically every house and has the most interesting and unique properties.

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In the s, researchers developed permanent magnets made from powdered samarium cobalt fused under heat. These magnets take advantage of the fact that the arrangement of the groups of atoms, called magnetic domains, in the hexagonal crystals of this material tend to be magnetically aligned. Because of this natural alignment, samarium-cobalt magnets can be made to produce magnetic forces 50 times stronger than magnetite. Headphones for small, personal stereo systems use samarium-cobalt permanent magnets. Samarium-cobalt magnets also have the advantage of being able to operate in higher temperatures than other permanent magnets without losing their magnetic strength.
Sintered Nd2Fe14B tends to be vulnerable to corrosion. In particular, corrosion along grain boundaries may cause deterioration of a sintered magnet. This problem is addressed in manymercial products by providing a protective coating. Nickel plating or two layered copper nickel plating is used as a standard method, although plating with other metals or polymer and lacquer protective coatings are also in use.[2]
In our present technology, magnet applications includepasses, electric motors, microwave ovens, coin-operated vending machines, light meters for photography, automobile horns, televisions, loudspeakers, and tape recorders. A simple refrigerator note holder and aplex medical magnetic resonance imaging device both utilize magnets.
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Arpes data reduction workflow in action.

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So today I will tell you about the metal lead. Lead is pretty much at the bottom of Group 4 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
Of all the non-radioactive elements, this metal has almost the biggest atomic mass. Outwardly lead is a soft, silvery metal which is very easy to scratch, since it is 1.5 times softer than gold. It's also a very easy to melt metal because of its melting point of 327 degrees, you can easily create ingots or cast figures from the lead.
This metal is very stable on air and does not react with acid solutions. However, lead and its compounds are quite toxic and you need to be careful when working with lead salts. In ancient Rome, lead was often being used as wall facing, for the manufacture of pipes and utensils. Romans did not know about the toxicity of lead, which they then subsequently paid for as lead affects the brain, and the human’s psyche then suffers greatly from it. The usage of lead at home is considered one of the causes for the Roman Empire collapse. And now that we know you should be careful with it let's conduct some nice experiments with lead, or rather with its compounds.
In the first experiment we'll take a hot solution of lead nitrate and mix it with a hot solution of potassium iodide, and then will wait until the mixture cools down. Upon cooling beautiful crystals of lead iodide will start to fall from the solution, resembling gold tinsel. We now just did the favorite trick of medieval alchemists, received gold from lead, although this is just a chemical delusion. This experiment is also known as the golden rain. Lead iodide crystals look very nice in the dark at lateral illumination.
For the second experiment we'll take the lead acetate, which is a salt of lead and acetic acid, and drop a piece of zinc into it. Over time a layer of lead crystals will start to grow on the zinc due to the reaction of substitution of lead by zinc ions.
The layer of lead crystals looks very nice. It turns out to resemble something like a lead hedgehog. Lead has a very wide application these days.
Mainly they tend to make bullets for weapons, some of those are covered with a copper shell. Lead is also used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries for cars, as a part of solder alloys. Because of its low price and high density, lead is used as a protection against radiation and as the load in fishing floats.
Lead is obtained by reacting lead ore concentrate with carbon, after which it is purified from silver, nickel and other metals.
Now you know a bit more about one other metal from the periodic table, if you want to continue this journey of the elements, like and subscribe to my channel to see many more new and interesting.

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November 20, 2014 — In a special InvestorIntel interview, Tracy Weslosky, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for InvestorIntel interviews Randy Scott, President, CEO and Director of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) about their recent series of news releases, including but not limited to the patent-pending technology and their recent trenching program with assays results.
Tracy Weslosky: Now you've had a couple of major milestones here in the last month. I think what I'd like to start with is you recent filed an application for a provisional U.S. patent on the technology for the selective precipitation and the process to --- technology to extract cerium and thorium. Did I get that correct?
Randy Scott: Yes, that's correct. That's actually one of two patents that we filed over the last month or so now.
Tracy Weslosky: Why would a company need to file a patent on the processing technology?
Randy Scott: The processing, particularly the separation side of things, is very competitive. We've been spending a lot of time and a lot of money trying to look at adding value to our concentrates, which we think we've done nicely with the pure concentrate we're producing, but because of that we wanted to look at going up the value chain and further separating the products. We've had test work underway now for a couple of three months to try to evaluate how our concentrates would perform if we develop technology to further separate them.
Tracy Weslosky: Of course this goes hand in hand with your assay results that you also just put out. Maybe you can explain what these results were.
Randy Scott: From a separation side, we've been able to develop technology that is able to remove cerium and thorium in one selective precipitation step. Then we followed that with the ability to do solvent extraction, but only one or two stages of solvent extraction, to look at further purifying the material and actually separating the rare earths into light rare earths.
Tracy Weslosky: And of course you're building--- you have plans for a large-scale demonstration plant. Is this correct?
Randy Scott: We've moved forward with that as well. You know, as a result of the preliminary feasibility study and the multiple pilot plants that we've done on the project we felt that it was a good time to look at moving up into even a larger scale production, almost commercial production facility. What we've done is we've gone out this summer and taken a 1,000 ton sample from a near surface exposure of our high-grade material. This is where the preliminary feasibility study has the initial mining starting. We wanted to be able to confirm these high-grade zones. We were able to do that by trenching approximately 225 feet and then sampling that as well. We were very pleased by the average grade of 10.1% for that 1,000 tons that came back for us.
To hear the rest of the interview, click here
Disclaimer: Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) is an advertorial member of InvestorIntel.

I had a lot of people make the statement that i should have played with the guy in the video or i should record at home, or i should just beat up the guy for being soo dang loud... well these are a few details i left out... and what can be coming in the next few weeks.
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Rare Earth (book)

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe is a 2000 popular science book about xenobiology by Peter Ward, a geologist and paleontologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, an astronomer and astrobiologist, both faculty members at the University of Washington. The book is the origin of the term 'Rare Earth Hypothesis' which, like the book, asserts the concept that complex life is rare in the universe.

Synopsis

The book argues that the universe is fundamentally hostile to complex life and that while microbial life may be common in the universe, complex intelligent life (like the evolution of biological complexity from simple life on Earth) required an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, and therefore complex life is likely to be extremely rare. The book argues that among the essential criteria for life are a terrestrial planet with plate tectonics and oxygen, a large moon, magnetic field, a gas giant like Jupiter for protection and an orbit in the habitable zone of the right kind of star.

Rare Earth (band)

Rare Earth is an American blues rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label (named after the band), which prospered from 1970–1972. Although not the first white band signed to Motown, Rare Earth was the first big hit-making act signed by Motown that consisted only of white members. (None of the previously signed all-white acts The Rustix, The Dalton Boys, or The Underdogs had any hits.)

History

1960s

The group formed in 1960 as The Sunliners and changed its name to Rare Earth in 1968. After recording an unsuccessful debut album, Dream/Answers, on the Verve label in 1968, the group was signed to Motown in 1969. The band was one of the first acts signed to a new Motown imprint that would be dedicated to white rock acts. The record company did not have a name for the new label yet and the band jokingly suggested Motown call the label "Rare Earth." To the band's surprise, Motown decided to do just that.

Rare earth element

A rare earth element (REE) or rare earth metal (REM), as defined by IUPAC, is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium. Scandium and yttrium are considered rare earth elements because they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as the lanthanides and exhibit similar chemical properties.

Despite their name, rare earth elements are – with the exception of the radioactive promethium – relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or as abundant as copper. They are not especially rare, but they tend to occur together in nature and are difficult to separate from one another. (The word "rare" is an archaic word for "difficult".) However, because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare earth minerals in economically exploitable ore deposits. It was the very scarcity of these minerals (previously called "earths") that led to the term "rare earth". The first such mineral discovered was gadolinite, a mineral composed of cerium, yttrium, iron, silicon and other elements. This mineral was extracted from a mine in the village of Ytterby in Sweden; four of the rare earth elements bear names derived from this single location.

National Security, Rare Earth Elements & The Thorium Problem

"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think this [mining] company is supplying the U.S. value chain, [and] is supplying the military. It is in-fact, the opposite. They are part of the Chinese monopoly. They're taking powder and shipping it to China, and it comes back as a magnet, or an alloy, or a bolt-on component." - Jim Kennedy
To address this issue, contact your legislators to support H.R.4883 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
Why can't Molycorp, Lynas or any other 'western' rare earth company succeed?
China's production and market advantage in Rare Earth Elements (REE) is largely the result of NRC and IAEA "SourceMaterial" regulations with unintended consequences.
Source Material: Materials containing any ratio or combination of Thorium and Uranium above .05%. Producing or holding these materials within the regulatory threshold (.05%) requires extensive and wide-ranging licensing, storage, transportation, remediation disposal and compliance costs, including prohibitive liability and bonding issues. Consequently any potential supplier of byproduct / co-product rare earth resources that would be designated as "source material' disposes of these valuable resources to avoid liability and compliance issues.
NRC / IAEA regulations regarding "Source Material" played a key roll in undermining the economic viability of all 'western' rare earth producers and are a critical factor in China's current 'market advantage'. Producers like Molycorp and Lynas, with low Thorium deposits, can never compete with China.
Resources are abundant and available: U.S mining companies currently mine as much as 50% of global Rare Earth Elements demand every year. But these resources are diverted in tailings lakes or are redistributed back into the host ore body, due to NRC and IAEA regulations defining Monazite and other Thorium bearing rare earth resources as "Source Material".
H.R. 4883 would solve the "Thorium Problem" by creating a federally chartered multinational Thorium Energy and Industrial Products Corporation ("Thorium Bank"). Privately funded and operated, this would decouple thorium from rare earth production. The Thorium Corporation would also have Congressional Authority to develop Thorium energy systems and industrial products. Environmental regulations are not scaled back... rather this enables thorium to be stored safely & securely, rather then being treated as "waste".
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
H.R. 4883 thus also addresses the U.S. Weapons Systems current 100% Dependency on China for Rare Earths.
http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/downloads/TEAC6/USWeaponsChinese.pdfFederal Legislation governing Strategic Materials, 10 USC 2533b, does not specify rare earths, but includes metal alloys containing limited amounts of manganese, silicon, copper, or aluminum, chromium, cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, nickel and iron-nickel, cobalt, Titanium and Zirconium alloys. Federal Regulations require that these materials be melted in the U.S. Most of these materials are utilized in rare earth alloys, magnets and components in the defense industry.
The bill does NOT reclassify thorium. It does NOT alter current environmental protection. It simply resolves "The Thorium Problem" which cripples United States domestic rare earth mining, processing and value-adding processes.
Source Footage:
Jim Kennedy @ IAEA: http://youtu.be/fLR39sT_bTs
Jim Kennedy interview @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/Dih30mUexrA
Jim Kennedy Talk @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/CARlEac1iuA
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/z7qfOnMzP9Y
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC4: http://youtu.be/J16IpITWBQ8
John Kutsch @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/MgRn4g7a068

5:46

Tungsten - The MOST REFRACTORY Metal ON EARTH!

Tungsten - The MOST REFRACTORY Metal ON EARTH!

Tungsten - The MOST REFRACTORY Metal ON EARTH!

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So, today I will tell you about the top refractory metal on Earth – tungsten. Tungsten is one of the transition metals, and is located in group 6 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
It got it’s name from the mineral wolframite, from which this mineral is obtained. Also, a tiny fun fact, wolfram is a Swedish word.
Now if we look at the appearance, tungsten looks like a shiny metal with gray tint, though if you hold a rod of tungsten in the hand you may experience one special characteristic. The density of tungsten is almost 20 grams per cubic centimeter, which is very close to the density of gold.
That is the reason why tungsten was used for faking gold bars. A couple of years ago there was news that some gold bars had a filling of tungsten inside, which of course is significantly cheaper than gold.
Though the forgery causes skepticism among some scientists.
To clearly demonstrate to you how much is 20 gram per cubic centimeter, I will compare the mass of a rod of tungsten and a rod of magnesium.
As you can see, the tungsten rod is not only several times smaller than the magnesium one, but is also even heavier than the latter.
Also, tungsten is a fairly brittle metal, it is plastic only when it has a very high purity. In addition, tungsten has the highest tensile strength.
However, this is not the main feature of this metal. To melt a piece of tungsten, you need to reach an extremely high temperature of 3422 degrees Celsius.
That is why this metal was at first used as the filament in incandescent bulbs.
However, if you pass a current through the thin tungsten filament, it can overheat and then break, thereby ceasing any production of light .
All is due to the fact that in air tungsten oxidizes at a high temperature, forming on its surface oxides of tungsten.
Also, the tungsten rod after calcination with a gas burner obtains beautiful colored stains, caused by the different thickness of the oxide film on the metal surface.
However, in light bulbs it’s not really about the beauty, more about the ability to actually produce light, hence all the oxygen from the bulb is pumped out and is replaced with a mixture of nitrogen and argon under reduced pressure.
In these circumstances, the filament can shine for quite a long time. Also another fun fact, when taking pictures of the the filament in macro I’ve noticed the difference of the more powerful old light bulbs and the less powerful modern ones.
In the old light bulbs the filament is made simply in the form of a spiral, but it turns out the modern ones have a double helix, making the filament thinner, which creates more sections of uneven thickness in the yarn, which then leads to the more rapid failure of the bulb. From a chemical point of view, tungsten is fairly stable, it is not soluble in hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. And the most stable compounds of hexavalent tungsten, such as, for example, the sodium tungstate are used as a catalyst of epoxidation in the organic synthesis, andin manufacturing of pigments. Sodium tungstate is soluble in water, but instead of water I will use the 30% acetic acid to obtain the so-called tungsten blue pigment that has a very intense color.
To do this, we’ll add a piece of magnesium to the test-tube. Magnesium reacts with acetic acid, releasing hydrogen, which in turn recovers tungsten from the hexavalent state to tungsten oxide 3 with an admixture of other oxides.
The formed particles of oxides are of a small size, allowing them to form colloidal solution of a bright blue or blue-green color.
The shade depends mainly on the acidity of the environment.
The obtained tungsten blue can be used as a good dye for fabric, paper or other items that have the ability to adsorb particles of tungsten blue.
The metal tungsten has a very high hardness and is hardly turned on the grinding wheel. Today tungsten finds many applications.
First and foremost, this metal is used in filaments for the halogen lamps, refractory electrodes for argon-arc welding, as well as in hard projectile cores in some military shells. The most common substance of the tungsten compounds is tungsten carbide, which also goes by the name Pobedit but mainly in Russia (which if you translate that to English means “will win”). It is mostly used as a cutter when machining metals or stones because of its high hardness. Quality high hardness steel would almost always be composed of tungsten. So that’s what this metal tungsten is like, which is found in practically every house and has the most interesting and unique properties.

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Iron-process magnetic iron production process

Iron-process magnetic iron production process

Iron-process magnetic iron production process

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In the s, researchers developed permanent magnets made from powdered samarium cobalt fused under heat. These magnets take advantage of the fact that the arrangement of the groups of atoms, called magnetic domains, in the hexagonal crystals of this material tend to be magnetically aligned. Because of this natural alignment, samarium-cobalt magnets can be made to produce magnetic forces 50 times stronger than magnetite. Headphones for small, personal stereo systems use samarium-cobalt permanent magnets. Samarium-cobalt magnets also have the advantage of being able to operate in higher temperatures than other permanent magnets without losing their magnetic strength.
Sintered Nd2Fe14B tends to be vulnerable to corrosion. In particular, corrosion along grain boundaries may cause deterioration of a sintered magnet. This problem is addressed in manymercial products by providing a protective coating. Nickel plating or two layered copper nickel plating is used as a standard method, although plating with other metals or polymer and lacquer protective coatings are also in use.[2]
In our present technology, magnet applications includepasses, electric motors, microwave ovens, coin-operated vending machines, light meters for photography, automobile horns, televisions, loudspeakers, and tape recorders. A simple refrigerator note holder and aplex medical magnetic resonance imaging device both utilize magnets.
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How SuperMagnets are made

How SuperMagnets are made

How SuperMagnets are made

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25 ARPES data reduction

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25 ARPES data reduction

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Lead - Metal That BULLETS Are Made From

Lead - Metal That BULLETS Are Made From

Lead - Metal That BULLETS Are Made From

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So today I will tell you about the metal lead. Lead is pretty much at the bottom of Group 4 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
Of all the non-radioactive elements, this metal has almost the biggest atomic mass. Outwardly lead is a soft, silvery metal which is very easy to scratch, since it is 1.5 times softer than gold. It's also a very easy to melt metal because of its melting point of 327 degrees, you can easily create ingots or cast figures from the lead.
This metal is very stable on air and does not react with acid solutions. However, lead and its compounds are quite toxic and you need to be careful when working with lead salts. In ancient Rome, lead was often being used as wall facing, for the manufacture of pipes and utensils. Romans did not know about the toxicity of lead, which they then subsequently paid for as lead affects the brain, and the human’s psyche then suffers greatly from it. The usage of lead at home is considered one of the causes for the Roman Empire collapse. And now that we know you should be careful with it let's conduct some nice experiments with lead, or rather with its compounds.
In the first experiment we'll take a hot solution of lead nitrate and mix it with a hot solution of potassium iodide, and then will wait until the mixture cools down. Upon cooling beautiful crystals of lead iodide will start to fall from the solution, resembling gold tinsel. We now just did the favorite trick of medieval alchemists, received gold from lead, although this is just a chemical delusion. This experiment is also known as the golden rain. Lead iodide crystals look very nice in the dark at lateral illumination.
For the second experiment we'll take the lead acetate, which is a salt of lead and acetic acid, and drop a piece of zinc into it. Over time a layer of lead crystals will start to grow on the zinc due to the reaction of substitution of lead by zinc ions.
The layer of lead crystals looks very nice. It turns out to resemble something like a lead hedgehog. Lead has a very wide application these days.
Mainly they tend to make bullets for weapons, some of those are covered with a copper shell. Lead is also used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries for cars, as a part of solder alloys. Because of its low price and high density, lead is used as a protection against radiation and as the load in fishing floats.
Lead is obtained by reacting lead ore concentrate with carbon, after which it is purified from silver, nickel and other metals.
Now you know a bit more about one other metal from the periodic table, if you want to continue this journey of the elements, like and subscribe to my channel to see many more new and interesting.

November 20, 2014 — In a special InvestorIntel interview, Tracy Weslosky, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for InvestorIntel interviews Randy Scott, President, CEO and Director of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) about their recent series of news releases, including but not limited to the patent-pending technology and their recent trenching program with assays results.
Tracy Weslosky: Now you've had a couple of major milestones here in the last month. I think what I'd like to start with is you recent filed an application for a provisional U.S. patent on the technology for the selective precipitation and the process to --- technology to extract cerium and thorium. Did I get that correct?
Randy Scott: Yes, that's correct. That's actually one of two patents that we filed over the last month or so now.
Tracy Weslosky: Why would a company need to file a patent on the processing technology?
Randy Scott: The processing, particularly the separation side of things, is very competitive. We've been spending a lot of time and a lot of money trying to look at adding value to our concentrates, which we think we've done nicely with the pure concentrate we're producing, but because of that we wanted to look at going up the value chain and further separating the products. We've had test work underway now for a couple of three months to try to evaluate how our concentrates would perform if we develop technology to further separate them.
Tracy Weslosky: Of course this goes hand in hand with your assay results that you also just put out. Maybe you can explain what these results were.
Randy Scott: From a separation side, we've been able to develop technology that is able to remove cerium and thorium in one selective precipitation step. Then we followed that with the ability to do solvent extraction, but only one or two stages of solvent extraction, to look at further purifying the material and actually separating the rare earths into light rare earths.
Tracy Weslosky: And of course you're building--- you have plans for a large-scale demonstration plant. Is this correct?
Randy Scott: We've moved forward with that as well. You know, as a result of the preliminary feasibility study and the multiple pilot plants that we've done on the project we felt that it was a good time to look at moving up into even a larger scale production, almost commercial production facility. What we've done is we've gone out this summer and taken a 1,000 ton sample from a near surface exposure of our high-grade material. This is where the preliminary feasibility study has the initial mining starting. We wanted to be able to confirm these high-grade zones. We were able to do that by trenching approximately 225 feet and then sampling that as well. We were very pleased by the average grade of 10.1% for that 1,000 tons that came back for us.
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Milling Skippy's TM Scar H gearbox

Milling Skippy's TM Scar H gearbox

Milling Skippy's TM Scar H gearbox

Just a short video of me milling out a damaged section in Skippy's gearbox.

National Security, Rare Earth Elements & The Thorium Problem

"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think this [mining] company is supplying the U.S. value chain, [and] is supplying the military. It is in-fact, the opposite. They are part of the Chinese monopoly. They're taking powder and shipping it to China, and it comes back as a magnet, or an alloy, or a bolt-on component." - Jim Kennedy
To address this issue, contact your legislators to support H.R.4883 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
Why can't Molycorp, Lynas or any other 'western' rare earth company succeed?
China's production and market advantage in Rare Earth Elements (REE) is largely the result of NRC and IAEA "SourceMaterial" regulations with unintende...

published: 28 Jul 2014

Tungsten - The MOST REFRACTORY Metal ON EARTH!

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So, today I will tell you about the top refractory metal on Earth – tungsten. Tungsten is one of the transition metals, and is located in group 6 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
It got it’s name from the mineral wolframite, from which this mineral is obtained. Also, a tiny fun fact, wolfram is a Swedish word.
Now if we look at the appearance, tungsten looks like a shiny metal with gray tint, though if you hold a rod of tungsten in the hand you may experience one special characteristic. The density of tungsten is almost 20 grams per cubic centimeter, which is very close to the density of gold.
That is the reason why tungsten was used for faking ...

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Lead - Metal That BULLETS Are Made From

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So today I will tell you about the metal lead. Lead is pretty much at the bottom of Group 4 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
Of all the non-radioactive elements, this metal has almost the biggest atomic mass. Outwardly lead is a soft, silvery metal which is very easy to scratch, since it is 1.5 times softer than gold. It's also a very easy to melt metal because of its melting point of 327 degrees, you can easily create ingots or cast figures from the lead.
This metal is very stable on air and does not react with acid solutions. However, lead and its compounds are quite toxic and...

November 20, 2014 — In a special InvestorIntel interview, Tracy Weslosky, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for InvestorIntel interviews Randy Scott, President, CEO and Director of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) about their recent series of news releases, including but not limited to the patent-pending technology and their recent trenching program with assays results.
Tracy Weslosky: Now you've had a couple of major milestones here in the last month. I think what I'd like to start with is you recent filed an application for a provisional U.S. patent on the technology for the selective precipitation and the process to --- technology to extract cerium and thorium. Did I get that correct?
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Milling Skippy's TM Scar H gearbox

Just a short video of me milling out a damaged section in Skippy's gearbox.

National Security, Rare Earth Elements & The Thorium Problem

"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think ...

"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think this [mining] company is supplying the U.S. value chain, [and] is supplying the military. It is in-fact, the opposite. They are part of the Chinese monopoly. They're taking powder and shipping it to China, and it comes back as a magnet, or an alloy, or a bolt-on component." - Jim Kennedy
To address this issue, contact your legislators to support H.R.4883 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
Why can't Molycorp, Lynas or any other 'western' rare earth company succeed?
China's production and market advantage in Rare Earth Elements (REE) is largely the result of NRC and IAEA "SourceMaterial" regulations with unintended consequences.
Source Material: Materials containing any ratio or combination of Thorium and Uranium above .05%. Producing or holding these materials within the regulatory threshold (.05%) requires extensive and wide-ranging licensing, storage, transportation, remediation disposal and compliance costs, including prohibitive liability and bonding issues. Consequently any potential supplier of byproduct / co-product rare earth resources that would be designated as "source material' disposes of these valuable resources to avoid liability and compliance issues.
NRC / IAEA regulations regarding "Source Material" played a key roll in undermining the economic viability of all 'western' rare earth producers and are a critical factor in China's current 'market advantage'. Producers like Molycorp and Lynas, with low Thorium deposits, can never compete with China.
Resources are abundant and available: U.S mining companies currently mine as much as 50% of global Rare Earth Elements demand every year. But these resources are diverted in tailings lakes or are redistributed back into the host ore body, due to NRC and IAEA regulations defining Monazite and other Thorium bearing rare earth resources as "Source Material".
H.R. 4883 would solve the "Thorium Problem" by creating a federally chartered multinational Thorium Energy and Industrial Products Corporation ("Thorium Bank"). Privately funded and operated, this would decouple thorium from rare earth production. The Thorium Corporation would also have Congressional Authority to develop Thorium energy systems and industrial products. Environmental regulations are not scaled back... rather this enables thorium to be stored safely & securely, rather then being treated as "waste".
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
H.R. 4883 thus also addresses the U.S. Weapons Systems current 100% Dependency on China for Rare Earths.
http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/downloads/TEAC6/USWeaponsChinese.pdfFederal Legislation governing Strategic Materials, 10 USC 2533b, does not specify rare earths, but includes metal alloys containing limited amounts of manganese, silicon, copper, or aluminum, chromium, cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, nickel and iron-nickel, cobalt, Titanium and Zirconium alloys. Federal Regulations require that these materials be melted in the U.S. Most of these materials are utilized in rare earth alloys, magnets and components in the defense industry.
The bill does NOT reclassify thorium. It does NOT alter current environmental protection. It simply resolves "The Thorium Problem" which cripples United States domestic rare earth mining, processing and value-adding processes.
Source Footage:
Jim Kennedy @ IAEA: http://youtu.be/fLR39sT_bTs
Jim Kennedy interview @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/Dih30mUexrA
Jim Kennedy Talk @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/CARlEac1iuA
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/z7qfOnMzP9Y
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC4: http://youtu.be/J16IpITWBQ8
John Kutsch @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/MgRn4g7a068

"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think this [mining] company is supplying the U.S. value chain, [and] is supplying the military. It is in-fact, the opposite. They are part of the Chinese monopoly. They're taking powder and shipping it to China, and it comes back as a magnet, or an alloy, or a bolt-on component." - Jim Kennedy
To address this issue, contact your legislators to support H.R.4883 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
Why can't Molycorp, Lynas or any other 'western' rare earth company succeed?
China's production and market advantage in Rare Earth Elements (REE) is largely the result of NRC and IAEA "SourceMaterial" regulations with unintended consequences.
Source Material: Materials containing any ratio or combination of Thorium and Uranium above .05%. Producing or holding these materials within the regulatory threshold (.05%) requires extensive and wide-ranging licensing, storage, transportation, remediation disposal and compliance costs, including prohibitive liability and bonding issues. Consequently any potential supplier of byproduct / co-product rare earth resources that would be designated as "source material' disposes of these valuable resources to avoid liability and compliance issues.
NRC / IAEA regulations regarding "Source Material" played a key roll in undermining the economic viability of all 'western' rare earth producers and are a critical factor in China's current 'market advantage'. Producers like Molycorp and Lynas, with low Thorium deposits, can never compete with China.
Resources are abundant and available: U.S mining companies currently mine as much as 50% of global Rare Earth Elements demand every year. But these resources are diverted in tailings lakes or are redistributed back into the host ore body, due to NRC and IAEA regulations defining Monazite and other Thorium bearing rare earth resources as "Source Material".
H.R. 4883 would solve the "Thorium Problem" by creating a federally chartered multinational Thorium Energy and Industrial Products Corporation ("Thorium Bank"). Privately funded and operated, this would decouple thorium from rare earth production. The Thorium Corporation would also have Congressional Authority to develop Thorium energy systems and industrial products. Environmental regulations are not scaled back... rather this enables thorium to be stored safely & securely, rather then being treated as "waste".
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
H.R. 4883 thus also addresses the U.S. Weapons Systems current 100% Dependency on China for Rare Earths.
http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/downloads/TEAC6/USWeaponsChinese.pdfFederal Legislation governing Strategic Materials, 10 USC 2533b, does not specify rare earths, but includes metal alloys containing limited amounts of manganese, silicon, copper, or aluminum, chromium, cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, nickel and iron-nickel, cobalt, Titanium and Zirconium alloys. Federal Regulations require that these materials be melted in the U.S. Most of these materials are utilized in rare earth alloys, magnets and components in the defense industry.
The bill does NOT reclassify thorium. It does NOT alter current environmental protection. It simply resolves "The Thorium Problem" which cripples United States domestic rare earth mining, processing and value-adding processes.
Source Footage:
Jim Kennedy @ IAEA: http://youtu.be/fLR39sT_bTs
Jim Kennedy interview @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/Dih30mUexrA
Jim Kennedy Talk @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/CARlEac1iuA
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/z7qfOnMzP9Y
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC4: http://youtu.be/J16IpITWBQ8
John Kutsch @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/MgRn4g7a068

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So, today I will tell you about the top refractory metal on Earth – tungsten. Tungsten is one of the transition metals, and is located in group 6 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
It got it’s name from the mineral wolframite, from which this mineral is obtained. Also, a tiny fun fact, wolfram is a Swedish word.
Now if we look at the appearance, tungsten looks like a shiny metal with gray tint, though if you hold a rod of tungsten in the hand you may experience one special characteristic. The density of tungsten is almost 20 grams per cubic centimeter, which is very close to the density of gold.
That is the reason why tungsten was used for faking gold bars. A couple of years ago there was news that some gold bars had a filling of tungsten inside, which of course is significantly cheaper than gold.
Though the forgery causes skepticism among some scientists.
To clearly demonstrate to you how much is 20 gram per cubic centimeter, I will compare the mass of a rod of tungsten and a rod of magnesium.
As you can see, the tungsten rod is not only several times smaller than the magnesium one, but is also even heavier than the latter.
Also, tungsten is a fairly brittle metal, it is plastic only when it has a very high purity. In addition, tungsten has the highest tensile strength.
However, this is not the main feature of this metal. To melt a piece of tungsten, you need to reach an extremely high temperature of 3422 degrees Celsius.
That is why this metal was at first used as the filament in incandescent bulbs.
However, if you pass a current through the thin tungsten filament, it can overheat and then break, thereby ceasing any production of light .
All is due to the fact that in air tungsten oxidizes at a high temperature, forming on its surface oxides of tungsten.
Also, the tungsten rod after calcination with a gas burner obtains beautiful colored stains, caused by the different thickness of the oxide film on the metal surface.
However, in light bulbs it’s not really about the beauty, more about the ability to actually produce light, hence all the oxygen from the bulb is pumped out and is replaced with a mixture of nitrogen and argon under reduced pressure.
In these circumstances, the filament can shine for quite a long time. Also another fun fact, when taking pictures of the the filament in macro I’ve noticed the difference of the more powerful old light bulbs and the less powerful modern ones.
In the old light bulbs the filament is made simply in the form of a spiral, but it turns out the modern ones have a double helix, making the filament thinner, which creates more sections of uneven thickness in the yarn, which then leads to the more rapid failure of the bulb. From a chemical point of view, tungsten is fairly stable, it is not soluble in hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. And the most stable compounds of hexavalent tungsten, such as, for example, the sodium tungstate are used as a catalyst of epoxidation in the organic synthesis, andin manufacturing of pigments. Sodium tungstate is soluble in water, but instead of water I will use the 30% acetic acid to obtain the so-called tungsten blue pigment that has a very intense color.
To do this, we’ll add a piece of magnesium to the test-tube. Magnesium reacts with acetic acid, releasing hydrogen, which in turn recovers tungsten from the hexavalent state to tungsten oxide 3 with an admixture of other oxides.
The formed particles of oxides are of a small size, allowing them to form colloidal solution of a bright blue or blue-green color.
The shade depends mainly on the acidity of the environment.
The obtained tungsten blue can be used as a good dye for fabric, paper or other items that have the ability to adsorb particles of tungsten blue.
The metal tungsten has a very high hardness and is hardly turned on the grinding wheel. Today tungsten finds many applications.
First and foremost, this metal is used in filaments for the halogen lamps, refractory electrodes for argon-arc welding, as well as in hard projectile cores in some military shells. The most common substance of the tungsten compounds is tungsten carbide, which also goes by the name Pobedit but mainly in Russia (which if you translate that to English means “will win”). It is mostly used as a cutter when machining metals or stones because of its high hardness. Quality high hardness steel would almost always be composed of tungsten. So that’s what this metal tungsten is like, which is found in practically every house and has the most interesting and unique properties.

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So, today I will tell you about the top refractory metal on Earth – tungsten. Tungsten is one of the transition metals, and is located in group 6 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
It got it’s name from the mineral wolframite, from which this mineral is obtained. Also, a tiny fun fact, wolfram is a Swedish word.
Now if we look at the appearance, tungsten looks like a shiny metal with gray tint, though if you hold a rod of tungsten in the hand you may experience one special characteristic. The density of tungsten is almost 20 grams per cubic centimeter, which is very close to the density of gold.
That is the reason why tungsten was used for faking gold bars. A couple of years ago there was news that some gold bars had a filling of tungsten inside, which of course is significantly cheaper than gold.
Though the forgery causes skepticism among some scientists.
To clearly demonstrate to you how much is 20 gram per cubic centimeter, I will compare the mass of a rod of tungsten and a rod of magnesium.
As you can see, the tungsten rod is not only several times smaller than the magnesium one, but is also even heavier than the latter.
Also, tungsten is a fairly brittle metal, it is plastic only when it has a very high purity. In addition, tungsten has the highest tensile strength.
However, this is not the main feature of this metal. To melt a piece of tungsten, you need to reach an extremely high temperature of 3422 degrees Celsius.
That is why this metal was at first used as the filament in incandescent bulbs.
However, if you pass a current through the thin tungsten filament, it can overheat and then break, thereby ceasing any production of light .
All is due to the fact that in air tungsten oxidizes at a high temperature, forming on its surface oxides of tungsten.
Also, the tungsten rod after calcination with a gas burner obtains beautiful colored stains, caused by the different thickness of the oxide film on the metal surface.
However, in light bulbs it’s not really about the beauty, more about the ability to actually produce light, hence all the oxygen from the bulb is pumped out and is replaced with a mixture of nitrogen and argon under reduced pressure.
In these circumstances, the filament can shine for quite a long time. Also another fun fact, when taking pictures of the the filament in macro I’ve noticed the difference of the more powerful old light bulbs and the less powerful modern ones.
In the old light bulbs the filament is made simply in the form of a spiral, but it turns out the modern ones have a double helix, making the filament thinner, which creates more sections of uneven thickness in the yarn, which then leads to the more rapid failure of the bulb. From a chemical point of view, tungsten is fairly stable, it is not soluble in hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. And the most stable compounds of hexavalent tungsten, such as, for example, the sodium tungstate are used as a catalyst of epoxidation in the organic synthesis, andin manufacturing of pigments. Sodium tungstate is soluble in water, but instead of water I will use the 30% acetic acid to obtain the so-called tungsten blue pigment that has a very intense color.
To do this, we’ll add a piece of magnesium to the test-tube. Magnesium reacts with acetic acid, releasing hydrogen, which in turn recovers tungsten from the hexavalent state to tungsten oxide 3 with an admixture of other oxides.
The formed particles of oxides are of a small size, allowing them to form colloidal solution of a bright blue or blue-green color.
The shade depends mainly on the acidity of the environment.
The obtained tungsten blue can be used as a good dye for fabric, paper or other items that have the ability to adsorb particles of tungsten blue.
The metal tungsten has a very high hardness and is hardly turned on the grinding wheel. Today tungsten finds many applications.
First and foremost, this metal is used in filaments for the halogen lamps, refractory electrodes for argon-arc welding, as well as in hard projectile cores in some military shells. The most common substance of the tungsten compounds is tungsten carbide, which also goes by the name Pobedit but mainly in Russia (which if you translate that to English means “will win”). It is mostly used as a cutter when machining metals or stones because of its high hardness. Quality high hardness steel would almost always be composed of tungsten. So that’s what this metal tungsten is like, which is found in practically every house and has the most interesting and unique properties.

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In the s, researchers developed permanent magnets made from powdered samarium cobalt fused under heat. These magnets take advantage of the fact that the arrangement of the groups of atoms, called magnetic domains, in the hexagonal crystals of this material tend to be magnetically aligned. Because of this natural alignment, samarium-cobalt magnets can be made to produce magnetic forces 50 times stronger than magnetite. Headphones for small, personal stereo systems use samarium-cobalt permanent magnets. Samarium-cobalt magnets also have the advantage of being able to operate in higher temperatures than other permanent magnets without losing their magnetic strength.
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In the s, researchers developed permanent magnets made from powdered samarium cobalt fused under heat. These magnets take advantage of the fact that the arrangement of the groups of atoms, called magnetic domains, in the hexagonal crystals of this material tend to be magnetically aligned. Because of this natural alignment, samarium-cobalt magnets can be made to produce magnetic forces 50 times stronger than magnetite. Headphones for small, personal stereo systems use samarium-cobalt permanent magnets. Samarium-cobalt magnets also have the advantage of being able to operate in higher temperatures than other permanent magnets without losing their magnetic strength.
Sintered Nd2Fe14B tends to be vulnerable to corrosion. In particular, corrosion along grain boundaries may cause deterioration of a sintered magnet. This problem is addressed in manymercial products by providing a protective coating. Nickel plating or two layered copper nickel plating is used as a standard method, although plating with other metals or polymer and lacquer protective coatings are also in use.[2]
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So today I will tell you about the metal lead. Lead is pretty much at the bottom of Group 4 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
Of all the non-radioactive elements, this metal has almost the biggest atomic mass. Outwardly lead is a soft, silvery metal which is very easy to scratch, since it is 1.5 times softer than gold. It's also a very easy to melt metal because of its melting point of 327 degrees, you can easily create ingots or cast figures from the lead.
This metal is very stable on air and does not react with acid solutions. However, lead and its compounds are quite toxic and you need to be careful when working with lead salts. In ancient Rome, lead was often being used as wall facing, for the manufacture of pipes and utensils. Romans did not know about the toxicity of lead, which they then subsequently paid for as lead affects the brain, and the human’s psyche then suffers greatly from it. The usage of lead at home is considered one of the causes for the Roman Empire collapse. And now that we know you should be careful with it let's conduct some nice experiments with lead, or rather with its compounds.
In the first experiment we'll take a hot solution of lead nitrate and mix it with a hot solution of potassium iodide, and then will wait until the mixture cools down. Upon cooling beautiful crystals of lead iodide will start to fall from the solution, resembling gold tinsel. We now just did the favorite trick of medieval alchemists, received gold from lead, although this is just a chemical delusion. This experiment is also known as the golden rain. Lead iodide crystals look very nice in the dark at lateral illumination.
For the second experiment we'll take the lead acetate, which is a salt of lead and acetic acid, and drop a piece of zinc into it. Over time a layer of lead crystals will start to grow on the zinc due to the reaction of substitution of lead by zinc ions.
The layer of lead crystals looks very nice. It turns out to resemble something like a lead hedgehog. Lead has a very wide application these days.
Mainly they tend to make bullets for weapons, some of those are covered with a copper shell. Lead is also used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries for cars, as a part of solder alloys. Because of its low price and high density, lead is used as a protection against radiation and as the load in fishing floats.
Lead is obtained by reacting lead ore concentrate with carbon, after which it is purified from silver, nickel and other metals.
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So today I will tell you about the metal lead. Lead is pretty much at the bottom of Group 4 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
Of all the non-radioactive elements, this metal has almost the biggest atomic mass. Outwardly lead is a soft, silvery metal which is very easy to scratch, since it is 1.5 times softer than gold. It's also a very easy to melt metal because of its melting point of 327 degrees, you can easily create ingots or cast figures from the lead.
This metal is very stable on air and does not react with acid solutions. However, lead and its compounds are quite toxic and you need to be careful when working with lead salts. In ancient Rome, lead was often being used as wall facing, for the manufacture of pipes and utensils. Romans did not know about the toxicity of lead, which they then subsequently paid for as lead affects the brain, and the human’s psyche then suffers greatly from it. The usage of lead at home is considered one of the causes for the Roman Empire collapse. And now that we know you should be careful with it let's conduct some nice experiments with lead, or rather with its compounds.
In the first experiment we'll take a hot solution of lead nitrate and mix it with a hot solution of potassium iodide, and then will wait until the mixture cools down. Upon cooling beautiful crystals of lead iodide will start to fall from the solution, resembling gold tinsel. We now just did the favorite trick of medieval alchemists, received gold from lead, although this is just a chemical delusion. This experiment is also known as the golden rain. Lead iodide crystals look very nice in the dark at lateral illumination.
For the second experiment we'll take the lead acetate, which is a salt of lead and acetic acid, and drop a piece of zinc into it. Over time a layer of lead crystals will start to grow on the zinc due to the reaction of substitution of lead by zinc ions.
The layer of lead crystals looks very nice. It turns out to resemble something like a lead hedgehog. Lead has a very wide application these days.
Mainly they tend to make bullets for weapons, some of those are covered with a copper shell. Lead is also used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries for cars, as a part of solder alloys. Because of its low price and high density, lead is used as a protection against radiation and as the load in fishing floats.
Lead is obtained by reacting lead ore concentrate with carbon, after which it is purified from silver, nickel and other metals.
Now you know a bit more about one other metal from the periodic table, if you want to continue this journey of the elements, like and subscribe to my channel to see many more new and interesting.

November 20, 2014 — In a special InvestorIntel interview, Tracy Weslosky, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for InvestorIntel interviews Randy Scott, President, CEO and Director of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) about their recent series of news releases, including but not limited to the patent-pending technology and their recent trenching program with assays results.
Tracy Weslosky: Now you've had a couple of major milestones here in the last month. I think what I'd like to start with is you recent filed an application for a provisional U.S. patent on the technology for the selective precipitation and the process to --- technology to extract cerium and thorium. Did I get that correct?
Randy Scott: Yes, that's correct. That's actually one of two patents that we filed over the last month or so now.
Tracy Weslosky: Why would a company need to file a patent on the processing technology?
Randy Scott: The processing, particularly the separation side of things, is very competitive. We've been spending a lot of time and a lot of money trying to look at adding value to our concentrates, which we think we've done nicely with the pure concentrate we're producing, but because of that we wanted to look at going up the value chain and further separating the products. We've had test work underway now for a couple of three months to try to evaluate how our concentrates would perform if we develop technology to further separate them.
Tracy Weslosky: Of course this goes hand in hand with your assay results that you also just put out. Maybe you can explain what these results were.
Randy Scott: From a separation side, we've been able to develop technology that is able to remove cerium and thorium in one selective precipitation step. Then we followed that with the ability to do solvent extraction, but only one or two stages of solvent extraction, to look at further purifying the material and actually separating the rare earths into light rare earths.
Tracy Weslosky: And of course you're building--- you have plans for a large-scale demonstration plant. Is this correct?
Randy Scott: We've moved forward with that as well. You know, as a result of the preliminary feasibility study and the multiple pilot plants that we've done on the project we felt that it was a good time to look at moving up into even a larger scale production, almost commercial production facility. What we've done is we've gone out this summer and taken a 1,000 ton sample from a near surface exposure of our high-grade material. This is where the preliminary feasibility study has the initial mining starting. We wanted to be able to confirm these high-grade zones. We were able to do that by trenching approximately 225 feet and then sampling that as well. We were very pleased by the average grade of 10.1% for that 1,000 tons that came back for us.
To hear the rest of the interview, click here
Disclaimer: Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) is an advertorial member of InvestorIntel.

November 20, 2014 — In a special InvestorIntel interview, Tracy Weslosky, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for InvestorIntel interviews Randy Scott, President, CEO and Director of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) about their recent series of news releases, including but not limited to the patent-pending technology and their recent trenching program with assays results.
Tracy Weslosky: Now you've had a couple of major milestones here in the last month. I think what I'd like to start with is you recent filed an application for a provisional U.S. patent on the technology for the selective precipitation and the process to --- technology to extract cerium and thorium. Did I get that correct?
Randy Scott: Yes, that's correct. That's actually one of two patents that we filed over the last month or so now.
Tracy Weslosky: Why would a company need to file a patent on the processing technology?
Randy Scott: The processing, particularly the separation side of things, is very competitive. We've been spending a lot of time and a lot of money trying to look at adding value to our concentrates, which we think we've done nicely with the pure concentrate we're producing, but because of that we wanted to look at going up the value chain and further separating the products. We've had test work underway now for a couple of three months to try to evaluate how our concentrates would perform if we develop technology to further separate them.
Tracy Weslosky: Of course this goes hand in hand with your assay results that you also just put out. Maybe you can explain what these results were.
Randy Scott: From a separation side, we've been able to develop technology that is able to remove cerium and thorium in one selective precipitation step. Then we followed that with the ability to do solvent extraction, but only one or two stages of solvent extraction, to look at further purifying the material and actually separating the rare earths into light rare earths.
Tracy Weslosky: And of course you're building--- you have plans for a large-scale demonstration plant. Is this correct?
Randy Scott: We've moved forward with that as well. You know, as a result of the preliminary feasibility study and the multiple pilot plants that we've done on the project we felt that it was a good time to look at moving up into even a larger scale production, almost commercial production facility. What we've done is we've gone out this summer and taken a 1,000 ton sample from a near surface exposure of our high-grade material. This is where the preliminary feasibility study has the initial mining starting. We wanted to be able to confirm these high-grade zones. We were able to do that by trenching approximately 225 feet and then sampling that as well. We were very pleased by the average grade of 10.1% for that 1,000 tons that came back for us.
To hear the rest of the interview, click here
Disclaimer: Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) is an advertorial member of InvestorIntel.

Guitar Center explaination... what is coming soon...

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I had a lot of people make the statement that i should have played with the guy in the video or i should record at home, or i should just beat up the guy for being soo dang loud... well these are a few details i left out... and what can be coming in the next few weeks.
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I had a lot of people make the statement that i should have played with the guy in the video or i should record at home, or i should just beat up the guy for being soo dang loud... well these are a few details i left out... and what can be coming in the next few weeks.
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National Security, Rare Earth Elements & The Thorium Problem

"The only operating rare earth mine in the United States sends all of their valuable resources to China for processing. Congress does not know this. They think this [mining] company is supplying the U.S. value chain, [and] is supplying the military. It is in-fact, the opposite. They are part of the Chinese monopoly. They're taking powder and shipping it to China, and it comes back as a magnet, or an alloy, or a bolt-on component." - Jim Kennedy
To address this issue, contact your legislators to support H.R.4883 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
Why can't Molycorp, Lynas or any other 'western' rare earth company succeed?
China's production and market advantage in Rare Earth Elements (REE) is largely the result of NRC and IAEA "SourceMaterial" regulations with unintended consequences.
Source Material: Materials containing any ratio or combination of Thorium and Uranium above .05%. Producing or holding these materials within the regulatory threshold (.05%) requires extensive and wide-ranging licensing, storage, transportation, remediation disposal and compliance costs, including prohibitive liability and bonding issues. Consequently any potential supplier of byproduct / co-product rare earth resources that would be designated as "source material' disposes of these valuable resources to avoid liability and compliance issues.
NRC / IAEA regulations regarding "Source Material" played a key roll in undermining the economic viability of all 'western' rare earth producers and are a critical factor in China's current 'market advantage'. Producers like Molycorp and Lynas, with low Thorium deposits, can never compete with China.
Resources are abundant and available: U.S mining companies currently mine as much as 50% of global Rare Earth Elements demand every year. But these resources are diverted in tailings lakes or are redistributed back into the host ore body, due to NRC and IAEA regulations defining Monazite and other Thorium bearing rare earth resources as "Source Material".
H.R. 4883 would solve the "Thorium Problem" by creating a federally chartered multinational Thorium Energy and Industrial Products Corporation ("Thorium Bank"). Privately funded and operated, this would decouple thorium from rare earth production. The Thorium Corporation would also have Congressional Authority to develop Thorium energy systems and industrial products. Environmental regulations are not scaled back... rather this enables thorium to be stored safely & securely, rather then being treated as "waste".
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4883
H.R. 4883 thus also addresses the U.S. Weapons Systems current 100% Dependency on China for Rare Earths.
http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/downloads/TEAC6/USWeaponsChinese.pdfFederal Legislation governing Strategic Materials, 10 USC 2533b, does not specify rare earths, but includes metal alloys containing limited amounts of manganese, silicon, copper, or aluminum, chromium, cobalt, columbium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, nickel and iron-nickel, cobalt, Titanium and Zirconium alloys. Federal Regulations require that these materials be melted in the U.S. Most of these materials are utilized in rare earth alloys, magnets and components in the defense industry.
The bill does NOT reclassify thorium. It does NOT alter current environmental protection. It simply resolves "The Thorium Problem" which cripples United States domestic rare earth mining, processing and value-adding processes.
Source Footage:
Jim Kennedy @ IAEA: http://youtu.be/fLR39sT_bTs
Jim Kennedy interview @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/Dih30mUexrA
Jim Kennedy Talk @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/CARlEac1iuA
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/z7qfOnMzP9Y
Stephen Boyd @ TEAC4: http://youtu.be/J16IpITWBQ8
John Kutsch @ TEAC6: http://youtu.be/MgRn4g7a068

Tungsten - The MOST REFRACTORY Metal ON EARTH!

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So, today I will tell you about the top refractory metal on Earth – tungsten. Tungsten is one of the transition metals, and is located in group 6 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
It got it’s name from the mineral wolframite, from which this mineral is obtained. Also, a tiny fun fact, wolfram is a Swedish word.
Now if we look at the appearance, tungsten looks like a shiny metal with gray tint, though if you hold a rod of tungsten in the hand you may experience one special characteristic. The density of tungsten is almost 20 grams per cubic centimeter, which is very close to the density of gold.
That is the reason why tungsten was used for faking gold bars. A couple of years ago there was news that some gold bars had a filling of tungsten inside, which of course is significantly cheaper than gold.
Though the forgery causes skepticism among some scientists.
To clearly demonstrate to you how much is 20 gram per cubic centimeter, I will compare the mass of a rod of tungsten and a rod of magnesium.
As you can see, the tungsten rod is not only several times smaller than the magnesium one, but is also even heavier than the latter.
Also, tungsten is a fairly brittle metal, it is plastic only when it has a very high purity. In addition, tungsten has the highest tensile strength.
However, this is not the main feature of this metal. To melt a piece of tungsten, you need to reach an extremely high temperature of 3422 degrees Celsius.
That is why this metal was at first used as the filament in incandescent bulbs.
However, if you pass a current through the thin tungsten filament, it can overheat and then break, thereby ceasing any production of light .
All is due to the fact that in air tungsten oxidizes at a high temperature, forming on its surface oxides of tungsten.
Also, the tungsten rod after calcination with a gas burner obtains beautiful colored stains, caused by the different thickness of the oxide film on the metal surface.
However, in light bulbs it’s not really about the beauty, more about the ability to actually produce light, hence all the oxygen from the bulb is pumped out and is replaced with a mixture of nitrogen and argon under reduced pressure.
In these circumstances, the filament can shine for quite a long time. Also another fun fact, when taking pictures of the the filament in macro I’ve noticed the difference of the more powerful old light bulbs and the less powerful modern ones.
In the old light bulbs the filament is made simply in the form of a spiral, but it turns out the modern ones have a double helix, making the filament thinner, which creates more sections of uneven thickness in the yarn, which then leads to the more rapid failure of the bulb. From a chemical point of view, tungsten is fairly stable, it is not soluble in hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. And the most stable compounds of hexavalent tungsten, such as, for example, the sodium tungstate are used as a catalyst of epoxidation in the organic synthesis, andin manufacturing of pigments. Sodium tungstate is soluble in water, but instead of water I will use the 30% acetic acid to obtain the so-called tungsten blue pigment that has a very intense color.
To do this, we’ll add a piece of magnesium to the test-tube. Magnesium reacts with acetic acid, releasing hydrogen, which in turn recovers tungsten from the hexavalent state to tungsten oxide 3 with an admixture of other oxides.
The formed particles of oxides are of a small size, allowing them to form colloidal solution of a bright blue or blue-green color.
The shade depends mainly on the acidity of the environment.
The obtained tungsten blue can be used as a good dye for fabric, paper or other items that have the ability to adsorb particles of tungsten blue.
The metal tungsten has a very high hardness and is hardly turned on the grinding wheel. Today tungsten finds many applications.
First and foremost, this metal is used in filaments for the halogen lamps, refractory electrodes for argon-arc welding, as well as in hard projectile cores in some military shells. The most common substance of the tungsten compounds is tungsten carbide, which also goes by the name Pobedit but mainly in Russia (which if you translate that to English means “will win”). It is mostly used as a cutter when machining metals or stones because of its high hardness. Quality high hardness steel would almost always be composed of tungsten. So that’s what this metal tungsten is like, which is found in practically every house and has the most interesting and unique properties.

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In the s, researchers developed permanent magnets made from powdered samarium cobalt fused under heat. These magnets take advantage of the fact that the arrangement of the groups of atoms, called magnetic domains, in the hexagonal crystals of this material tend to be magnetically aligned. Because of this natural alignment, samarium-cobalt magnets can be made to produce magnetic forces 50 times stronger than magnetite. Headphones for small, personal stereo systems use samarium-cobalt permanent magnets. Samarium-cobalt magnets also have the advantage of being able to operate in higher temperatures than other permanent magnets without losing their magnetic strength.
Sintered Nd2Fe14B tends to be vulnerable to corrosion. In particular, corrosion along grain boundaries may cause deterioration of a sintered magnet. This problem is addressed in manymercial products by providing a protective coating. Nickel plating or two layered copper nickel plating is used as a standard method, although plating with other metals or polymer and lacquer protective coatings are also in use.[2]
In our present technology, magnet applications includepasses, electric motors, microwave ovens, coin-operated vending machines, light meters for photography, automobile horns, televisions, loudspeakers, and tape recorders. A simple refrigerator note holder and aplex medical magnetic resonance imaging device both utilize magnets.
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Lead - Metal That BULLETS Are Made From

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So today I will tell you about the metal lead. Lead is pretty much at the bottom of Group 4 of the periodic table of chemical elements.
Of all the non-radioactive elements, this metal has almost the biggest atomic mass. Outwardly lead is a soft, silvery metal which is very easy to scratch, since it is 1.5 times softer than gold. It's also a very easy to melt metal because of its melting point of 327 degrees, you can easily create ingots or cast figures from the lead.
This metal is very stable on air and does not react with acid solutions. However, lead and its compounds are quite toxic and you need to be careful when working with lead salts. In ancient Rome, lead was often being used as wall facing, for the manufacture of pipes and utensils. Romans did not know about the toxicity of lead, which they then subsequently paid for as lead affects the brain, and the human’s psyche then suffers greatly from it. The usage of lead at home is considered one of the causes for the Roman Empire collapse. And now that we know you should be careful with it let's conduct some nice experiments with lead, or rather with its compounds.
In the first experiment we'll take a hot solution of lead nitrate and mix it with a hot solution of potassium iodide, and then will wait until the mixture cools down. Upon cooling beautiful crystals of lead iodide will start to fall from the solution, resembling gold tinsel. We now just did the favorite trick of medieval alchemists, received gold from lead, although this is just a chemical delusion. This experiment is also known as the golden rain. Lead iodide crystals look very nice in the dark at lateral illumination.
For the second experiment we'll take the lead acetate, which is a salt of lead and acetic acid, and drop a piece of zinc into it. Over time a layer of lead crystals will start to grow on the zinc due to the reaction of substitution of lead by zinc ions.
The layer of lead crystals looks very nice. It turns out to resemble something like a lead hedgehog. Lead has a very wide application these days.
Mainly they tend to make bullets for weapons, some of those are covered with a copper shell. Lead is also used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries for cars, as a part of solder alloys. Because of its low price and high density, lead is used as a protection against radiation and as the load in fishing floats.
Lead is obtained by reacting lead ore concentrate with carbon, after which it is purified from silver, nickel and other metals.
Now you know a bit more about one other metal from the periodic table, if you want to continue this journey of the elements, like and subscribe to my channel to see many more new and interesting.

November 20, 2014 — In a special InvestorIntel interview, Tracy Weslosky, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for InvestorIntel interviews Randy Scott, President, CEO and Director of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) about their recent series of news releases, including but not limited to the patent-pending technology and their recent trenching program with assays results.
Tracy Weslosky: Now you've had a couple of major milestones here in the last month. I think what I'd like to start with is you recent filed an application for a provisional U.S. patent on the technology for the selective precipitation and the process to --- technology to extract cerium and thorium. Did I get that correct?
Randy Scott: Yes, that's correct. That's actually one of two patents that we filed over the last month or so now.
Tracy Weslosky: Why would a company need to file a patent on the processing technology?
Randy Scott: The processing, particularly the separation side of things, is very competitive. We've been spending a lot of time and a lot of money trying to look at adding value to our concentrates, which we think we've done nicely with the pure concentrate we're producing, but because of that we wanted to look at going up the value chain and further separating the products. We've had test work underway now for a couple of three months to try to evaluate how our concentrates would perform if we develop technology to further separate them.
Tracy Weslosky: Of course this goes hand in hand with your assay results that you also just put out. Maybe you can explain what these results were.
Randy Scott: From a separation side, we've been able to develop technology that is able to remove cerium and thorium in one selective precipitation step. Then we followed that with the ability to do solvent extraction, but only one or two stages of solvent extraction, to look at further purifying the material and actually separating the rare earths into light rare earths.
Tracy Weslosky: And of course you're building--- you have plans for a large-scale demonstration plant. Is this correct?
Randy Scott: We've moved forward with that as well. You know, as a result of the preliminary feasibility study and the multiple pilot plants that we've done on the project we felt that it was a good time to look at moving up into even a larger scale production, almost commercial production facility. What we've done is we've gone out this summer and taken a 1,000 ton sample from a near surface exposure of our high-grade material. This is where the preliminary feasibility study has the initial mining starting. We wanted to be able to confirm these high-grade zones. We were able to do that by trenching approximately 225 feet and then sampling that as well. We were very pleased by the average grade of 10.1% for that 1,000 tons that came back for us.
To hear the rest of the interview, click here
Disclaimer: Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE MKT: REE | TSX: RES) is an advertorial member of InvestorIntel.

Guitar Center explaination... what is coming soon...

I had a lot of people make the statement that i should have played with the guy in the video or i should record at home, or i should just beat up the guy for being soo dang loud... well these are a few details i left out... and what can be coming in the next few weeks.
Second Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGRO9kHggyou965wZPJqxw